Just thanking Christ that we didn't have to listen to Mark Nicholas, would have compared everything back to 2005, would have claimed it to be as good a series as four years ago, and pretty much ruined the whole series.

He was on the Channel 5 highlights package here. Life must be wonderful when you orgasm every time someone hits a four.

Originally Posted by indiaholic

Ireland on the other hand are everything that is good and just and beautiful in this world.

In the end, I think it's so utterly, incomprehensibly boring. There is so much context behind each innings of cricket that dissecting statistics into these small samples is just worthless. No-one has ever been faced with the same situation in which they come out to bat as someone else. Ever.